Comrade Zinoviev!

I have read the draft of the theses and have no objections.

The paragraph on the history of Bolshevism should be supplemented and in part modified. It is incorrect that the split occurred only in 1910. It must be said that formal splits with the Mensheviks, which took place in the spring of 1905 and in January 1912, were succeeded by semi-unifications and unifications in 1906 and 1907, then in 1910—not only as a result of the vicissitudes of struggle, but also under pressure from below, which demanded proof through its own experience.

I think it necessary to state this more accurately and concretely on a single page.

6/XII.

Lenin

Written in December 1921
First published in 1945
in Lenin Collection XXXV

Printed from a typewritten copy

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